HE WAS DINKUM.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 September 1919, Page 3

HE WAS DINKUM.

It is noL the easiest thing imaginaino to gain admittance to a first-class two—up school. A player is not accepted as genuine simply because he is good-looking or comes from a good family. He has to survive the acid test, and the severity of that depends on the “schooi.”

For several weeks prior to the rekeen‘: raid on the big school” on the ‘sandhills at -Bondi a policeman from one of the distant suburbs Was, sent amongst the players to collect evidence. He bet, swore, drank, and did everything else necessary to secure the brand of gcnuineness. But a. couple of weeks before‘the raid one of the players became suspicious. “You’l'c a slop,” he lold the police man. The eonsta.b'le in plain clothes denied the soft impe.achnlent._ ' “But I know flyolur face,” the play.er persisted “You’re a John all ‘]'lgl'll.H ». “I was,” the policeman corrected, “but I was chucked out for pinching a couple of bob.” That. satisfied the suspicious one. The policeman ’s bona fides were not questioned aftel'wards,t and the raid was a success.